Secure Collaboration Platform: A Case Study in the Biosecurity Domain

We have investigated the design of a secure collaboration platform to support real-time information sharing across professional and organizational boundaries in the context of emergency animal disease response. The platform integrates cross-organisational eAuthentication and eAuthorisation technologies to enable access control of shared data resources between geographically distributed experts in their collaborative meetings. We have conducted an evaluation user study to understand how the integrated platform can provide the basis of secure information sharing, particularly the real-time diagnostics information from laboratory instruments.